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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Hector Elizondo (1936 - ) Actor Born: December 22, 1936, New York, NY Education: CCNY; Ballet Arts Company of Carnegie Hall (dance); Stella Adler Studio Chameleon-like character player who broke away from ethnic stereotyping early in his career, playing a rich variety of comic and dramatic roles. After a brief fling with ballet, Elizondo established himself as a versatile stage actor, winning an Obie for his performance as God—in the guise of a Puerto Rican steam room attendant—in Bruce Jay Friedman's off-Broadway comedy, Steambath (1971). He also earned a Drama Desk nomination as George C. Scott scheming servant in Sly Fox, Larry Gelbart's contemporary reworking of Volpone. Elizondo made his film debut (fully clothed) in the sexploitation film THE VIXENS (1969), and has since proved as comfortabe switching ethnic identities as he has changing the many wigs that he uses to cover his natural baldness. He played the police officer who takes lessons in dressing from Richard Gere in GIGOLÓ AMERICANO (1980) and is evidentally a favorite of director Garry Marshall, who has cast him in superb roles in four of his films: as both Angelo and Angela Bonafetti in ¿DONDE ESTA EL DOCTOR? (1982); as Matt Dillon sympathetic working-class father in THE FLAMINGO KID (1984); as Tom Hanks ad agency boss in NADA EN COMÚN (1986); and as Julia Roberts fairy godfather—in the form of a supportive hotel manager—in MUJER BONITA (1990).
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